Formative work to design a digital learning self-assessment and feedback tool to prevent weight gain among college students.

Objective: While colleges have implemented brief, tailored interventions for health-risk areas such as alcohol prevention, theoretically-guided digital learning offerings for weight gain prevention have lagged behind in programming and implementation. Thus, the objective was to design and usability test a weight gain prevention digital learning platform for college students with modules targeting key nutrition and physical activity behaviors.

Methods: Development occurred in iterative phases: formative research, descriptive normative data collection, prototype development, and usability testing.